Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-18
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New York bar-rooms has grown 20 A legion
American bar-rooms are the most artistic and In
vitng in the world, and the enterprise OF their pro
prietors has made business and handsome incomes
FOR purveyors In many lines AT stated interyalss
man from New Jersey visits all the principal
saloons OF the city, bearing a bundle OF roots He
Is the seller Qf sweet Dag He hires rfty acres OF
low land In Jersey, which is dense with a growth
OF sweet nag. He harvests a crop once a month
during the summer season and sells his product at
an average price OF nearly l cent a root Exper-
fenced drinkers value nothing more highly than
sweet nag as q breath disinfectant. The sweet
flag vendor Is followed by thrifty woman who
sells mint at cents a bunch. All irst-class
saloons use at least one bunch OF mint a day.
Then comes the handler OF spices; he has an
elaborate case OF commodities, including cinna-
mon, allspice, cloves coffee snake-root and cassa
buds. The latter are the most popular, but nj the
same time the most expensive OF breath perfumes,
and patron who buys a lo-cent drink ana takes
a liberal pinch OF cassia buds shaves on the pro-
nts with the latter luxury 10 the extent that few
saloon owners will furnish Il. The most popular
concomitant OF drinks is the comparatively new
feature OF parched sweet corn. which sells at 25
Se ,1 per quart The corn is Literally sprinkled
win salt, and the man who takes drink and
then chews handful OF salt parched corn Is im-
lneuiately seized with desire % take another
come OF more than S. a day in New York and
mere is multitude OF minor merchants In thu
""AS oonnihouity VINO make lesser sums
MINT AND FLOWER WOMEN
The mint used In saloons rs raised In GREAT gar.
dens In the suburbs OF New York, and the produo.
ZION or the crop furnishes employment tohundreds
OF persons IL is sold by the gardeners ID women.
mno Ie'al, IL 70 Inc drinking places Daring the
season when mint Juleps and May wine IA drink
SOLO at nrst-class German saloons) are In fashion
great
large number OF women make a comfortable
nvlng selling bouquets OF flowers for the adorn-
ment OF The bars OF saloons. great arm, oflemou
auo orange vendors visit certain smaller saloons
each day and make comfortable incomes IRON their
trainc The more extensive places, which use Q
oox or lemons day, and oranges pineapples and
strawberries In large quantities., buy them at
Wholesale. one man has Tor years made A hand-
some living by selling soft shell era los In the saloons
and billiard rooms OF New York When crshs ara
no longer In season he deals In fried oysters The
principal free lunch saloon or the city In which
nigh salaried chef is employed consumes 100
bushels or beans month, and Russian cavlare
sausages ana roast beef that cost the proprietor
OF the place 500 week.
PROFESSIONAL DECORATORS.
Not long ago every proprietor OF a irst-class
saloon decorated the walls and chandeliers OF his
place with curiously-cut pendant paper Fashion.
which governs saloons as rigidly as it controls
The ladies, overlook this innovation and drove &c
out OF date. Saloons In the rural regions are now
graced with paper decorations but no fashionable
resort In New York Is addicted TO the practire.
IL mas. 10 the sorrow OF the paper hangers, sue
cumbed 10 the style set by a dry goods store
window decorator OF this city. A saloon Keeper
who had wearied OF the gaudy festoons OF
paper asked the tasteful window decorator TO
devise something new for the protection OF the
costly chandeliers and glass OF the place from
the flies. The decorator took some cheap tariaran
OF gay colors and trimmed the saloon with H. In
stantly the place became famous, and the window
trimmer was deluged with orders 10 the extent
that he LEFT the store and made $40 per day trim
ming saloons. Professional window trimmers al
over the city and from Europe, where window
decorating Is trade by itse found out the secret,
ana The next year dozen men were at the busl-
ness. Now more than 100 professional decorators
make a living In New York trimming saloons
Ihey begin soliciting orders long before lies are
around, and their season OF work lasts from April
TO August They pay from twelve and a hall 70
I"enty-nve cents per yard for the taratan they
use, and get from ten 10 one hundred Collars FOR
decorating saloon. They keep stocks OF blue aud
yellow for German saloons liberal supplies OF green
Tor Irish resorts and subdued mild Units for high
toned American places. When the summer trim
ming season Is over they begin 10 solicit work FOR
the winter holiday time when they decorate
looms AMI private residences with holly and ever
green's Their business is Increased by the grow
Ing fashion OF having the stateroom OF a passenger
testoons at the Instance OF friends.
FRAMING THE FIRST BILL.
The picture frame makers too come In for q
share OF the profits OF the saloon business When
new saloon or restaurant sopened the proprietor
preserves as souvenir OF good luck the rr,t BIZ
PAID over the bar. IL Is framed In the most expen.
slVe manner that the owner can devise and hung
In conspicuous place The frame OF initial s.
Dill hanging In one Broadway saloon Is studded
ruDes and other precious stones
A saloonist on upper Broadway who has literary
tastes has furnished novel attraction 10 the
patrons or his wine rooms on the upper floors in
the form or complete libraries OF leading works Of
fiction or travel The books are bound In rfch
Turkey morocco, and each room contains a marble
medallion portrait OF the late Peter Cooper
AMOS j. CUMMINGS.
NEW YORK on WHEELS
New York is brilliant when wheels The care
that Is laviShed on the stables OF thousands Of
men and women here makes the east drive In the
park the most brilliant and snowy place ia New
YORK. Filth avenue Is lined with harness shops
and the salesrooms or Dig carriage factories and
no man achieves emlnence so quickly In society as
the one who shines through the perfection or his
stable. The American girl Is pushing her
self forward on the east drive or The park,
she Is everywhere else. She is not content loll
In the corner OF a British brougham. She drives.
Nothing disconcerts her, and occasionally she Is
what the vulgar call "a sight"
HANDLING THE RIBBONS.
For instance, yesterday saw a big T-cart roll
ing down the drive with an amount or pomposIty,
noise and show that would shame an old-time
circus band-wa&0n IL was q magnificent cart
The wheels were red and very big and heavy, the
body bottle green, and the seats higher than the
top or the average closed carriage. There was
magnificent team OF bays 10 The cart, groomed TN
their coats sh0ne like satin They were about
seventeen hands high, perfectly matched and
they pounded the earth with their giant hoofs
like SO many animated pile-drlvers. The big steel
chains that ran from their collars To the pole OF
the cart changed and ratified as they rushed along
the drive, the very personif1cation OF power and
force. on the box seat, high above their heads
and holding the big white ribbons In her tiny
hands, sat girl OF perhaps ~ years, with slim
arms, delicate features, and fragile waist. she
held her hands well up, with the whip hanging
crosSwiSe, and her feet were braced firmly BIZ her
side sat serene and placid young woman of
about the same age, VINO loed back gracefully
under a crimson parasol, and who seemed 10
regard her driver with The most serene conf
dence. On the rear seat was a big English groom
with his hands clasped on his knees ana his eyes
half starting from his head There were 10000
Carriages whirling along the park, and the girl on
the O0X seat missed about 900 OF Them 10y nothing
less than miracle She Was able To guide the
horses by mighty tug on one rein or the other,
was evident that they scarcely knew size was at
the other end or the reins
A STUDY IN WHITE AND BLACK
The struggle toget something out or the ordinary
was instanced a moment later by the appearance
OF a gentleman who is variousiy known as "No
Mans Friend" and the "Baron of BaccaraL" He
had small Two wheeled cart and neat ly groomed
bobtail black mare. The mare was the color OF
Ink She hadn't white spot on her. Every part
OF the cart was pure white. IL may have been ash
polished and whiuened, but whatever the wood
was IL was almost the color OF driven snow. Even
the spokes OF the wheels were or virgin white but
the grain OF the wood could be seen easily In them
The leatter cushions and trappngs were white,
and there was u prett1ly embroidered white robe
over the shaky knee OF the Baron lie was dressed
entirely In black and his sombre face was In sharp
wore a huge white canvas collar, white relns and
white traces. They looked douby brilliant against
her black coat. This turnout was the sensation
OF the park during the day. To-morrow nobody
will notice IL, ana the Baron Will be reduced TO
some otner scheme TO attract attention.